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Monday, November 14, 2016

Columbia
Pictures' epic action thriller “Underworld: Blood Wars,” the
latest instalment in the blockbuster franchise, picks up in the
aftermath of 2012’s “Underworld: Awakening” in which Selene
(Kate Beckinsale) discovered that she had a daughter, Eve, with her
former lover, Michael Corvin. At the end of the film, the reunited
mother and daughter embark on a hunt for the missing father.

“We
are back with Selene in this film,” says producer David Kern.
“Selene is on the run and is having a difficult time being reunited
with her daughter.” The mother-daughter team get separated along
the way and Selene meets up with another ally from “Awakening,”
David (Theo James). “Together, Selene and David are trying to find
the daughter that she’s been separated from,” Kern continues.
“And they get clogged up with a new Lycan, Marius, who is a bad-ass
dude, much like Lucian [Michael Sheen] in the first film, but even
scarier and nastier and more dangerous.”

The
imposing character of Marius is a Super Lycan and he is lusting after
the blood of both Selene and Eve as he bids to become the most
powerful being of all, and to bring a final victory to the Lycan
species. Marius is played by “Game of Thrones” star Tobias
Menzies.

“Underworld
is a really exciting series that gives you really amazing
opportunities as a filmmaker, visually and creatively, to create a
new world,” shares director Anna Foerster.

“With
Underworld you have rules that are very specific for the story and
for the franchise, but you can veer off from that. On purely the
visual and creative side, it is extremely exciting.”

One
of the rules to which the director refers pertains to the visual
style, with all of the Underworld films to date defined by a
near-monochromatic colour palette, heavy on blue and black.

“There
is a certain expectation there but within that there is a playfulness
to take advantage of,” says Foerster. “This film is going into
different environments and we have a different feel and different
colours.”

In
“Blood Wars,” the audience is taken into a Nordic vampire coven
in the far north. “When we go into the north and into the snow,
there is definitely a different colour palette,” Foerster adds.
“Here people wear white and they wear furs and they have white
skin. That was a fun way to push this into another direction.

“But,
that said, we’ve evolved a new direction in monochrome as well. I
like the monochrome. It is part of the franchise’s style and I
think it is cool when you are in that dark-bluish, monochrome,
eastern coven world. And then you go into the north and you see
greys, silvers and whites.

“Then
it becomes really interesting when they mix, which happens towards
the end of the movie; the two environments mix and you suddenly have
that contrast.”

This
contrast should excite fans, echoes producer David Kern. “We go to
a few different environments that haven’t been seen in an
Underworld movie before, and they have required different designs and
different ways of thinking,” he says.

“Everyone
thinks of Underworld as very dark and blue, a city-type landscape, so
we are having fun opening that up and sending Selene and David off
into different regions. That is really cool.”

Opening
across the Philippines on Nov. 30, “Underworld: Blood Wars”
is distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony Pictures
Releasing International.